High-tech job starting salary coming from prestigious University?

<p>lol wow…</p>

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Wow, for some reason I thought you were explaining what Alexandre said:

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<p>I was asking Alexandre a question, I just never placed question marks.

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<p>Ummm… Okay then…</p>

<p>I think you meant to type “doesn’t this” instead of “this doesn’t” One makes a question, the other makes a statement. Especially if you don’t put a question mark, it’s impossible to tell that it’s supposed to be a question.</p>

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Ummm… Not at all, here is the sentence ( with question mark, excempting quotations):

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<p>Including “doesn’t this” is more so agreeing to a statement/ making a statement, that would be incorrect. If I typed “this does” ( which would be incorrect/ not making a question at all) that would be like including " doesn’t this", besides " this does" is making a statement… “doesn’t this” is asking a question on a statement I made. It would be correct if you said " does this" is asking a question ( at least for my sentence). Though at least in my sentence " this doesn’t" is fine… it all really varies on the sentence it’s included in. If it was spoken then you probably wouldn’t be able to tell it’s a question, unless you go by ones tone.</p>

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<p>Wow, this thread is completely off topic now.</p>

<p>Here we go again…</p>

<p>On average, CS / CE are the two highest paying engineering majors followed by ChemE and EE.</p>

<p>If you want to make the maximum amount of money right out of school, go to Wall Street or ExxonMobil.</p>

<p>unless you head onto the exxonmobil trade floor, your maximum compensation plateaus way earlier than your wall street/ chicago prop trading counter part.</p>

<p>yeah 100k per year is what I meant, not 10k</p>

<p>Definitely true bearcats, but probably much less likely that you will burn out at Exxon.</p>

<p>coolbreeze is really making michigan look bad.</p>

<p>Coolbrezze is still in high school I think o_O</p>

<p>Coolbrezze,</p>

<p>Man you have 2,305 posts in 10 months. You really need to get out and do something. Stop worrying about college so much and go enjoy yourself.</p>

<p>I kinda know how he feels though. I’ve lost hours of sleep worrying about whether or not I’ll get into Michigan, and it’ll probably be months before I get my decision.</p>

<p>Yeah I’m still in high school yousup, though reguardless if I wasn’t kb10 comment is obnoxious. </p>

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<p>I have been worrying about college since 8th grade, though now finally in the process I guess I’m looking even more into schools than ever. Oh yeah, I don’t get out much currently as I would like, but will be able to in college ofcourse.</p>

<p>damn… and i didnt even start thinking about college until sr year.</p>

<p>"For CS, CE, the median is higher, 76,900 for CE and 75000 for CS</p>

<p>"<a href="http://career.engin.umich.edu/salary/20072008.html"&gt;http://career.engin.umich.edu/salary/20072008.html&lt;/a&gt;" "</p>

<p>You got it backwards for CS and CE. CS earns the most among other high-tech majors.</p>

<p>If you are not particularly interested in CS and have never programmed before, would it be a good strategy to get artificially interested in CS so that you can earn lots of money and then with the money you have the luxury of living off of the interest and study whatever you want afterwards?</p>

<p>lol…no… you wont be able to afford a lot of luxuries doing traditional CS job. If you want a lot of money, go into the finance world</p>

<p>No. I actually read that software engineering was the best job in the U.S. and one of the fastest growing, on some news report, but you won’t be so rich that you can live off the interest. I’m going into CS because it’s something I like to do (although the money does help).</p>

<p>I’d estimate the guess for LSA is about $10k high. More like $40k average. The rest are accurate.</p>

<p>hmm do you realize that 40k is close to nothing when you take tax into account?</p>

<p>I am being paid 60k prorated for my sophomore summer internship and my biweekly paycheck is only around 1.7-1.8k, and this is in a state that doesnt have state tax. That roughly translate to around 3500 a month after tax, which is like nothing when bills, rent, grocery come into play.</p>

<p>It could easily go down to 3200 a month in any other states with state tax or even 3000 a month in cities like NYC that charges city tax. This is 60k a year.</p>

<p>My signing bonus was taxed at 40%… so it was not much either if you spread it around throughout these 10 weeks. If you take the bonus into account, I make 4000 a month after tax. It’s barely enough for all my needs.</p>

<p>With that in mind, I cant imagine how one would go through 4 years of college to make…40k?? That’s like 1.9k-2.3k depending on state tax per month after tax… holy crap…</p>